Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Transformative Innovation or Ethical Quagmire? (NEW RELEASE!)
Jacob M. Appel (MD JD MPH HEC-C DFAPA) is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where he is Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry, Assistant Director of the Academy for Medicine and the Humanities, and Medical Director of the Mental Health Clinic at the East Harlem Health Outreach Program. He also teaches graduate students at Albany Medical College’s Alden March Bioethics Institute. Prior to joining the faculty at Mount Sinai, Jacob taught for many years at Brown University and at Yeshiva College, where he was the writer-in-residence. Jacob is the author of five literary novels, ten short story collections, an essay collection, a cozy mystery, a thriller, a volume of poems and a compendium of dilemmas in medical ethics. He is Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle, co-chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s Committee on Psychiatry & Law, and a Councilor of the New York County Psychiatric Society.
Overview
Not a day passes without media headlines declaring that artificial intelligence (AI) will transform—or take over—the world. But what will the effects of AI be on modern medicine and how fast can we expect them to arrive? How does AI compare with physicians in matters of diagnosis and prescribing treatment? Can AI really eliminate emergency room wait times and discover new antibiotics? And, most important, what unforeseen dangers does AI pose to unsuspecting patients? This lecture looks back on the history of AI, examines its current uses in both clinical care and biomedical research and explores those technologies still coming down the pike. Among those topics covered are the impact of AI on informed consent, confidentiality and malpractice liability.